Trouble running Cyrus IMAP 2.1.14

[Michael Ellis]

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 02:20  PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> -- Michael Ellis <mellis at ellissoftworks.com> is rumored to have 
> mumbled on Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 13:37 Uhr -0400 regarding Re: 
> Trouble running Cyrus IMAP 2.1.14:
>
>> I thought your suggestion to try truss/strace was a good one, so
>> performed the Mac OS X equivalent.  On that OS, the command you want 
>> is
>> called "sample" (included with the developer tools).
>
> Not quite. While the output from "sample" can be very interesting, I 
> think "ktrace" is a closer equivalent to "truss" and "strace" ...

What can I say?  Sebastian's correct -- "ktrace" is closer to "strace". 
  Thanks for the tip!  :-)

I've got another data point.  Since my most recent email, I've been 
able to get IMAPD and POP3D to respond.  I found, by 100% dumb luck, 
that if I run "/usr/cyrus/bin/master &" from the "/usr/cyrus/bin" 
directory, that IMAPD and POP3D will happily display their greeting.

Isn't that odd?  I've been running MASTER as root this whole time, but 
I've been throwing it into the background from whatever directory I 
happen to be in.  Previously, this has often been the "/etc" directory 
(as I've been hacking config files there).  However, by chance I 
recently spawned MASTER from the the "/usr/cyrus/bin" directory and 
IMAPD comes to life with:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK powermac7300 Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.14 server ready

How 'bout that?  If this was path problem problem, I would have 
expected MASTER to fail to spawn the IMAPD daemon in the past.  But it 
has previously had no trouble spawning the daemon, so it must have 
known where to find it, so it must not be a path problem.

Is it a scratch problem?  Does MASTER need to be able to write to the 
directory from which it was spawned?

Also, there's still the nagging matter of these DBERRORs I'm getting in 
the system log:

Jul 24 14:28:04 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12170]: checkpointing cyrus 
databases
Jul 24 14:28:04 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12170]: DBERROR: archive 
/var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Jul 24 14:28:04 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12170]: DBERROR: error 
archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001
Jul 24 14:28:04 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12170]: DBERROR: archive 
/var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Jul 24 14:28:04 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12170]: done checkpointing 
cyrus databases

Should I be concerned about these?

Thanks for all of the help so far -- I'm definitely getting closer!

-Mike Ellis

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